Why Does Everyone Love MX Linux? - MX-Linux 23

before I watched this video, I was going to install Manjaro with KDE Plasma on my dads laptop... but now I'm considering MX Linux, with either KDE Plasma, or Xfce.

Your review made MX Linux look very interesting. Especially so since I've been looking to move away from Windows. But once i booed it up, I found it WAY too unintuitive to use. I have a non-techy wife to consider, and this just won't fly with her. It just barely flew with me. This is NOT a distro for Newbies and the willfully tech challenged.

all the tool should be on all distros and naming should be good enough easy to understand , its a good recommend for new users as in never left windows the goal is to never touch as much as possible the terminal

- Light weight
- Debian based
- New User friendly
- Easy Installer
- The 'base' version is excellent for netbooks and older laptops
....Next question ?
Typing this right now on MX-23.3 64bit by the way 8)

Ive been trying ALL the distros and BUDGIE as it has the side notification and calendar (ubuntu spin) is about the best, then XFCE (deb/ubuntu) and mostly becuase it lets you put different wallpaper on each desktop (simple but man, only xfce does it with a single click!) ~ no distro has fixed the Davinci Resolve problem for the love of god! MX is X11, they havent even begun Wayland supporting it as themeing is all set to X11 but X11 isnt the FUTURE of Linux

MX is fast but feels "ugly A/F" no matter what I do to it - so sue me! I don't need all the fancy bells whistles (and bugs) of KDE which to me has spawned some excellent side projects like KiCAD but has never really gotten a handle on looking good. So I'm going to swallow my pride or whatever and try Zorin Core. I do think that 50EU is a bit steep for the extra functionality but maybe I'm just cheap. (I'm not THAT cheap, I contribute to Blender, KiCAD and some other open source projects that I use extensively and everything I do at home is open source hardware/software.

No rolling updates. It is not for me.

Mx ui is ugly, it’s like win 98 interface

Just use Arch enough said!!

Ive been hopping to different Linux distros from Minx to Opensuse to Arch to Debian 12 but they didnt satisfies my needs that much until i found mx linux and i love it!

I prefer Mint but MX looks decent, I may give it a try

mx linux is great until you try to do anything at all with it that didn't come pre-installed and configured with the distro, then it just falls completely to bits. utter basket case of an OS. also what kind of actual psycho doesn't consider the ability to mount an iso file as a virtual drive to be an indispensable core feature of a file manager in tyool 2024, holy shit

I am 63, a Linux user since 2005-ish, and experienced in all from Ari to Zorin. MX KDE AHS works best for me. As I am writing here, banks and insurance companies in South Africa, airlines and airports in the US are blacked out after Microsoft updates. MX, being Debian-based, is the winner, as I use KDE apps, also for syncing my phone. Ryzen 7 5.10GHz, 96GB DDR5, 4TB SSD, 8K video editing in OpenShot and KDEnlive, CPU intense. Oh, RTX4070 8GB as well, but will get e-GPU. 😊

FINALLY, a distro that lets me install children of varying categories

they dont

MX Linux was the very first Linux distro I ever installed back in the early 2000's.

It's always been fast and efficient. But I'm so happy to see it's finally getting the recognition it deserves 👍

Installed on my All in one potato. Sign on pay bills from my bank and sign off. Got the Dell All in one for 20 bucks. Laptop with MX23. Laptop dual booting 19 and 23 From Arch to Debian based. I had 19 set up for Raspberry Pi stuff and VR's did not want to start over. So split the drive with GParted and added 23. Installed it on a Dell Inspirion 13 Touchscreen Laptop/Tablet the touchscreen works no hassles. Mint is on my Gaming Rig Dual booting with Win10. Other than that and just installed AntiX on a very old IBM G41 Thinkpad I grabbed for 10 bucks in a thrift store. MX is my goto. Started with Red Hat in 1996 from Linux for Dummies CD's. Have probably tried them all since.

Yes, but I use Arch.

sudo pacman -S is the only true way to install your software.

It's fast and it works that's why

I run mx-linux kde from a usb drive as an emergency repair os. it's great and it boots from legacy or uefi pc's. Love it.

My current fav distro for low resource demand is AntiX 23 ... MX's lightweight sister and I love it. After years of depending on Lubuntu I find AntiX to be a superior replacement which is even lighter. I now think I will replace Mint on my most powerful laptop with MX-Xfce ... as it appears to be a better mid weight alternative.

I'm very familiar with Mint and Lubuntu but I recently switched over to AntiX 23.1 on my least powerful laptop to replace Lubuntu and there is no going back. Now I am thinking about replacing Mint/Cinnamon on my more powerful systems with MX ...

MX Linux their XFCE new styles darkcold,darkblood, and darkfire tells us why they are number one.

The installer and the MX Tool suite set it apart from plain Debian/Ubuntu based releases.

Why does everyone love MX Linux? Maybe it's because:
1) Live usb functionality (MY os, setup MY way, available to ME, on EVERY machine capable of booting from a thumb drive).
2) Mx Snapshot (either just the system I've customized, or that plus all MY other stuff too).
3) Low resource usage
4) Mx whatever AHS (advanced Hardware Stack) for even the newest computers.
5) Mx Tools (all of which are extremely useful baked right in).
6) Mx one on one help utility
7) The first linux distro whose forum members aren't a$$holes when asking questions.
8) How-to videos by one of the people who actually help create mx linux.
9) Updates that take a whopping 2 minutes to download AND INSTALL.
10) Mx linux is an operating system that is trying to be an operating system. Instead of an advertising platform that has some OS functionality built in (Windows 8 and above).

the problem I have with other distros, is just they look cartoony. I have tried so many other distros but always come back to mx linux, but they need to do something with gaming

It is looking cool! But i'm still not sure if it is the best alternative to Windows yet. Because I'm still in Windows 11 and if u have used Windows so long it is hard to get into a Linux System if u don't know what to do. And that is the biggest Problem for me. I really wanna try it out and i have it a bit via the Virtual Box here on Windows, but sometimes there the Bootscreen lagged after the Installation and didn't start, 2. I didn't have much space to install some stuff and test it (I have 2 hard drives in my pc: 1. is a SSD with 120 GB where windows is now at and a HDD with 1 TB where i install my other stuff). I've heard Linux decide for itself where to install the stuff but if you don't have enough space i don't know what to do then. There was no workplace like in Windows where i can see how much space i have left and also i don't know how to get linux to install in my 2. Hard Drive. Maybe you could say something about that :) I'm very intresting to hear ur oppinion :)

nothing but yet another ugly and boring distro..

When installing mx Linux I can't see any WiFi on, my laptop doesn't have ethernet connectors, it has intel WiFi 6 201, any clue?

MX linux is proof that you can fit pretty much what most people need for few clicks satisfied setup in less than 3GB , and XFCE is the best candidate to please most people

I installed it on a formerly windows machine (a pc actually from microsoft) and MX didn't go well at all. I ditched it and installed Ubuntu, and that worked perfectly. I could even install the AOC monitor driver to have two monitors.

I jus t installed MX and so far so good. I like it better then Mint and Bodhi.

Great videos mate I hope you start uploading again soon

I have just installed it, seems ok, on my ThinkPad, open ai recommended it for my usecase, hobby. just getting used to it. I'm newbie ish to linux so it is a lot of fun, thanks for the video. I love the look you achieved and as a beginner I would like to learn how to do that....have you done a video on it.

Which template is it?

MX Linux working great on my 10 year laptop

I tried and ... MX Linux is a pile of total rubbish, Zorin 16.3 is a KING, not Zorin 17!

It looks popular because the stats are rigged on that page.

Its also a distro that has wifi working out of the box.

I just discovered mx linux 23.5 and im enjoying it so far. I went with KDE version.

An HP STREAM w. only 32GB/4GB RAM hiccupped (& the 32GB overflowed) with LMDE6, & the latest Linux Mint, & a few other distroes.
Only MX LINUX installs; works well; & still leaves enough drive space for updates. Bravo.

Kind of a bummer you really can't easily upgrade from one full number version to the next. I'm still on MX 21 because I followed some instructions to upgrade and everything went to crap. I had to timeshift back.

no everyone does not 'love' MX linux...,

I'm a linux mint fan but once I used more than one distro many but still Linux mint and mx linux are best in performance and fluidity and I think now mint is in rank 1 distro in distrowatch still I thinks mx linux is the only one who defeat linux mint in terms of performance

I would love to run MX Linux. Unfortunately, my hardware doesn't play well with it.

I really liked MX Linux because of its app store and its lightweight system footprint. I was using it on an old laptop and it ran the best. At the time I had been using NordVPN and wanted easy installation and GUI setup. MX Linux offered that far simpler than other distros. I never once used the terminal on that distro either. I have extensive experience using command lines but if I don't have to, all the better for peace of mind.

I definitely love it. The reasons stated here apply, but there are others. I like the Xfce Desktop, which is the default, "out of the box." Installing software is simpler than most other distros I've tried. For its system requirements, it offers a LOT, and you don't notice it's a "lightweight" distro. On my HP Probook 430 G2 (2-core i5, 12 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) ($50 from Ebay, though I DID add the SSD, which upped the price) it's lightning fast, and it boots up in 40 seconds! The Ubuntu-based distros I've tried seem to take forever to boot.

Goodness knows, I can't even install it (no problem with Debian ubuntu etc). I dread to think what other problems there might be.